Chaos as key Jubilee aspirants boycott party nominations citing massive irregularities

Kirinyaga Gubernatorial aspirant Anne Waiguru arrives at the Kiamugumo primary school polling center in Gichugu constituency where she termed the Jubilee party nominations a sham wondering how the center which has over 1800 voters was supplied with 200 ballot papers for the gubernatorial race, April 21, 2017. [PHOTO: Mose Sammy, Standard]

Boycott by key aspirants and poor preparations marred the start of Jubilee Party primaries in its Mt Kenya stronghold on Friday.

Claims of rigging emerged in Nyeri, with a bundle of pre-marked ballot papers intercepted in Mukurwe-ini. A suspect was locked up at Mukurwe-ini Police Station after ballot papers were found in his car. The suspect had pre-marked ballots in favour of a gubernatorial aspirant, a senatorial aspirant and a Tetu constituency aspirant.